social order

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At the same time he is seen as loyal to Thailand's traditional social order -- a stance that resonates with many in a still largely conservative society.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

In this academic setting a consensus emerged, as the legal scholar Henry Sumner Maine argued, that sacrifice had been the basis for social order and political association.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

Her lack of inhibition causes social order to collapse; outside the cinema, the reaction was just as intense.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

When African Americans migrated west, L.A. was wide open, a physical and spiritual landscape with space to build the social order anew.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

The alchemists had pursued a secret learning, convinced that only a few were fit to have knowledge of divine secrets and that the social order would collapse if gold ceased to be in short supply.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton